Super Rare Games has announced its latest physical project, Super Rare Mixtape Vol. 1, a very limited collection of indie games bundled into one package.
The mixtape, which will be shipped to buyers as a tape cassette-shaped USB drive playable on PC, contains a curated collection of 30 games created by small indie developers in the freeware scene. The list includes retro first-person shooters, platformers, visual novels, tower defence games, and even quick experimental ideas, and six demos for upcoming indies that have already caught the eye of the gaming world like SkateBIRD, Grapple Dog, and Billie Bust Up will also be featured.
It'll be limited to just 1,000 copies, includes a full-colour manual with dedicated pages for each of the games, and comes in a box designed to fit snugly with the rest of your games collection. Orders are going live on Super Rare's website on 19th August at 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm BST, and it'll cost £28 plus shipping.
Super Rare Games, who you'll likely know as a publisher of physical indie releases on Nintendo Switch, says that it hopes to make more volumes in the future. The idea was put together by the company's 'Head of Saying Stuff', Ryan Brown, who discusses the project in the video below:
What do you think to the idea? Will you be ordering a copy next week? Share your thoughts with us below.
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Cool idea, not for me though.
Hope someone is gonna enjoy it a hella lot.
@noobish_hat Was literally just thinking that myself
Can you mention in the headline or sub-headline when something is for PC and not Switch? I hope you don't do it on purpose to mislead your readers for clickbait.
So itch Io games. Slow clap.
Intriguing concept...
Only for pc and no switch :/
I can't say that I'm feeling this, there are better way to preserve PC games of merit than throwing together a thousand cassette-shaped USB drives surely.
It's PC, preservation there is a matter of maintenance rather than physical release.
I like the concept. Would have been an insta buy on switch.
Looks gorgeous! I'd love to check these out!
Be nice if this could hookup to the Dock USB and play from that.
@RupeeClock Well, you can say it's a cool collectable.
And it's not like it's going to be have any DRM, so make a copy of it and you can display the casette.
This is a great concept but... it's not coming to Nintendo consoles, so why the article?
...... so it's not going to be on a Nintendo platform...
I feel baited.
At least say in the headline this is PC-only ?
Not cool @Ryan
So....I can run this on my C64 tape deck?
@noobish_hat i actually got all hyped up and kept my eyes open to get a copy and then all of a sudden I realized it is for PC... I agree... I feel like I wasted my time because of a misleading article... why did an article in NINTENDOLife promote a PC release?
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